St. Anthony Catholic School believes strongly in “parent power”. The greater the parent/ guardian support the increased success we can achieve as a school. There is endless research outlining the countless benefits of parent involvement in children’s education.

Each family is required to serve a minimum of twenty service hours during the school year. Ten hours must be served each semester. This means the first ten hours must be complete by January 20, 2017.

A cash fee of $15 may be substituted for each service hour not served. Parents must receive an electronic background check and attend Virtus training through the Archdiocese of Washington to participate in all classroom, recess, field trip, and before/aftercare activities.Unmet obligations will be added to the family’s bill at the end of each semester.

The Opportunity Scholarship Program will not cover service hour fees. Failure to satisfy this obligation will mean that the child’s place at St. Anthony may be forfeited and that transcripts will be withheld.

GUIDELINES

Two family members, at a maximum, may perform one service activity for credit.

Adults ages 18 years old and older may perform service hours in order to receive credit.

Donation of hours may be limited to four hours for the school year (two hours per semester).

Faculty and staff may not serve on your behalf or donate hours.

Families are to model themselves in accordance to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Courtesy and respect are expected while performing service hours.

Donations of materials and food may not be substituted for service hours.

School wide events may require advance sign up or committee membership in order to receive service hours.

A maximum number of hours may be assigned to certain services. The amount of hours will be established and agreed upon prior to performing the hours.

A logbook to record the hours is kept in the office. It is the only record that you have served the required 20 hours.
It is each family’s responsibility to log in the hours under their child’s name. St. Anthony faculty and staff members or any other persons other than the activity coordinator may not log in on behalf of the family.

Email all inquires in regards to service hours to stanthonyhsa12@gmail.com .

Parents who complete the fingerprinting will be credited with 4 hours of service.

Service Opportunities:

Are you available at 7:40 am for twenty minutes or at 3:30 pm for 20 minutes? Volunteer crossing guards are needed before and after school, especially at the corner of 12th and Lawrence Streets, NE. Individuals are also needed in front of the school to assist parents in dropping off their child.

Pizza Fridays always need help sorting order and serving pizza.

The parish hosts a First Friday Fish Fry each month. Help is needed from 9:30 Am-7:00 PM.

Friday Folders need to be stuffed each week. It begins promptly at 8:30 AM each week.

Is beautification/maintenance your thing? If you're interested in painting, light cleaning, landscaping, etc... then we have morning and evening jobs ready for you. Your TLC will go a long way in improving our school.

Interested in moderating a club or an after-school activity? You're needed on Friday afternoons, 2:30-3:30 PM.Our students are talented and love getting involved. Consider starting a book club or a cooking club. What's your passion? Why not share it?

Do you need evening hours? Individuals are needed to call alumni in an attempt to update the alumni database and also parents for upcoming events.

Interested in making "Save the Dates" for upcoming events. Individuals are needed to design flyers.

Are you available on Friday mornings? Individuals are need to help stuff the Friday folders.

Love Sports? Consider helping out with our CYO athletics program.

Chaperoning - see your child's teacher for upcoming trips (maybe even share an idea with the teacher).

Home and School events - see a HSA representative. Opportunities include the Honor Roll ice cream social held at the end of each quarter.